mabelmoments: Orphaned orangutans saved from extinction in Borneo jungle At the Nyaru Menteng centre 47 “babysitters” – women recruited from nearby villages in central Borneo - help care for 650 apes as they move through nursery, Forest School One and Forest School Two before hopefully heading out for a new life in the jungle. The centre was set up 12 years ago by ­Danish conservationist Lone Dröscher-Nielsen who devised the baby-sitter system of giving the traumatised young orphans the ­unconditional love they need to survive. The lesser-known measurement of funness, a wheelbarrow of monkeys.

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Orphaned orangutans saved from extinction in Borneo jungle

At the Nyaru Menteng centre 47 “babysitters” – women recruited from nearby villages in central Borneo - help care for 650 apes as they move through nursery, Forest School One and Forest School Two before hopefully heading out for a new life in the jungle.

The centre was set up 12 years ago by ­Danish conservationist Lone Dröscher-Nielsen who devised the baby-sitter system of giving the traumatised young orphans the ­unconditional love they need to survive.

The lesser-known measurement of funness, a wheelbarrow of monkeys.

(via theanimalblog)